Career Track

South Bend Tribune:

Smart vs. cool: Schooled by culture, race and ethnicity

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But a few miles away at Hyde Middle School, in the heavily Asian Cupertino Union School District, Tiffany Nguyen detects the opposite attitude. If you’re not smart, “you’re really looked down on,” the Vietnamese-American eighth-grader said.

Why wouldn’t you want to do well in school if you lived in Cupertino, California? After all, that certain employer at One Infinite Loop won’t hire just any developer, coder or engineer.